Representation improved in the year of 'Black Panther' and 'Crazy Rich Asians,' but USC's Annenberg Inclusion Initiative urges that progress shouldn't end there.
, its annual comprehensive and intersectional examination of representation in film, USC's Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that the percentage of black and Asian speaking characters in 2018's 100 highest-grossing movies both hit 12-year highs of 16.9 and 8.2 percent, respectively. Overall, non-white characters represented 36.3 percent of speaking characters, up from 29.
Among those areas is gender, where although the number of movies with female leads or co-leads rose from 20 in 2007 to 39 in 2018, the overall onscreen population that is female remains just 30.9 percent over the report's 12-year span and just under a third in 2018 .declined to 5.3 percent , LGBT characters represented 1.3 percent of cinematic populations as opposed to 4.5 percent in real life, and characters with disabilities 1.6 percent compared with 27.2 percent of the actual U.S.
In studying which demographic groups were invisible onscreen, the AII researchers found that 70 of the top 100 movies had no Latina characters, 78 had no people of Middle Eastern/North African descent and only one film depicted a Native American character onscreen. Multiple studies of diversity in Hollywood have consistently found that directors from underrepresented backgrounds tend to hire more inclusively.
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